Aegan...

Ayyo...amma!!

Regardless.....Happy Diwali to all of you!

Meaningless Mortals

Before I dwell upon the topic of this post, I wish to say that I am not anti-(anything). Every body think what they do is right.

I was shell shocked to listen to some of the speeches made by so called "Maar thattum" tamizhans. I have no intention whatsoever to listen to any pro-LTTE speeches. But I thought this agitation was all about the ill-treatment rendered to the fellow Tamils in the land of Sinhalese. And hence I watched it.

Alarmingly, almost every one of them delivered a pro-LTTE speech. The LTTE proposal (a parallel proposal drafted by them) says they and SL will have one cabinet each, one prime minister each albeit under one president of SL. It is like an autonomous college operating under an university but not bound to any of the rules of the university. This is some thing that impacts the sovereignty of SL and how can another country interfere in this kind of an internal affair?

I am also puzzled when they claimed that LTTE is not a terrorist outfit. I mean if IM, LeT or any other outfit that bomb, conduct suicide attacks demanding Kashmir from India can be labelled as terrorist outfits then certainly LTTE falls under this bracket and to openly support it is, according to me, supporting terrorist activities in neighbouring island nation. The cries from them asking Indian government to interfere and ask military to enter in to ceasefire should be brushed aside as rubbish. As Smt.Jayalalitha rightly pointed out, LTTE would use this time to rebuild their arms wing and retaliate strongly.

Had only people talked about the suffering on Tamil people in the island nation, it would have been much better. Please... learn to differentiate LTTE and the innocent Tamils bearing the grunt of the military oppression. We need to talk for the innocents and not the outfit. The common people nursing their wounds, both physically and mentally, need our moral support and not the outfit.

I think these people must shut up and carry on with their own business unless they know what exactly they should be talking in these meetings. Do they really know what they are standing up for?

I stand for the rights of Tamils in SL 100% and at the same time I am 0% with these outfits because of their chosen modus operandi. For their cause might be noble but they resorted to inhuman practices. If these were to be achieved by means of peaceful dialogues, world would have been much better. I will use couple of Mahatma's quotes to close this. "Non-violence has its own share of difficulties. It tests the people abiding by it to the core. But it also promises success in the end"
"He who volunteers to serve a band of dacoits by working as their career or their watchman or their nurse when they are wounded is as much guilty of the dacoity as the dacoits themselves"

---Peace----

One man...one PRINCE

That was the time when cricket was being talked about for all non-cricketing reasons. That was the time of bookies. Playing, let alone leading a team, needed so much motivation.

That was the time even a stalwart like Sachin wilted under the pressure of captaining Team India. That was the time when few legends,until then, painted their names black by earning money through means that is best not discussed.

That was the time, one man stepped up to take the thorny baton in his hands. Arrive Sourav Ganguly, the Prince and fondly DADA.

To take it up from there in 2000 and building a team that storms in to 2003 WC final is no mean achievement (all be it, we lost the finals). Today much of Indian cricket owes to his foresightedness. He transformed a bunch of boys in to men and instilled in them the confidence to look in to the eyes of opposition and not to fade away like a dew drop in a broad daylight. He has been the definition for phoenix, rising every time written off.

2002-2005 were not best of his days. But captaincy has taken a lot out of every Indian captain. He had to give away his favorite opening slot to Sehwag to build for future. And after an unfortunate row with Chappel, he was gone. And he was not talked about. Fair enough, owing to his batting performances.

But once he made his comeback, the last two years were awesome. And still gets dropped. Enough, he thought. For he is DADA. He commands. And so he hangs up the boots. A masterful, eventful journey is about to end. I have the same feeling as the kid who knows his horse ride in the beach is about to end. With heavy heart, I bid adieu to my star!

Dada, you rock! You are a LEGEND!

"H" goes Hopping

Its been my long standing rant. I do not have an unusually long name. Prashanth is after all a three or four syllable name (he he... oru vegathula sollittaen...I do not know if this is right..but that's not the topic here)

I can't stand people misspelling my name all the time. After all, I can accept the fault with pronunciation but spelling mistake is some thing I can't take. All the time, people comfortably do away with one of the "H" in my name.

They either write it as "Prasanth", "Prashant".

Worst, if they miss both the "H". It sounds like answering a roll call. "Prasant" mam...see?? Awful!

One of my colleagues seems to be very unhappy with my name. He wants be to be some kind of "Nath" so he turned me in to "Prasnath". This he does in every single mail of his. I can understand if there is no reference to my name. But when you are replying to my emails, its there to be seen in the "To" section in the top. Its there in my signatures... but people still like to give me names!

I may be Mr.Kamal fanatic...but I hate to play multiple roles with out my ID.

Hi.. I am PRASHANTH!